the problem we all live with podcast summary

If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. The current reality of segregated housing is irrelevant . He sets a timer and watches it. "Oh my god, your prom was so nice.

Enid, who is selling them on magnet schools, which exist to promote integration, also does not mention integration. All available space is covered in forms, and brochures, and paperwork. It's like a 360 view.Whoa and you can just come and look at what space looks like any time you want?Because that would be ridiculous. Congress had to approve this, and there are other tools to try and get at this.It just seemed like such a perfect place to put it in. And the people inside the schools, who already knew about this, were excited. All the detail she considers, like making sure there are white kids in the brochures, or if parents do tour a school, Enid does her best to have their child shadow a white student. And some parents, they'll say, "Are they going to be the only white kid in the class? This is the same year, the same exact year, that Boston began to walk away from busing after a decade of riots and basically civil war there over school integration. "So it's something that's obviously been very important to many of us for many, many years, long before we ever came to Washington. and Jack Daugherty.Neighbor to neighbor, white person to white person.I'm Ira Glass. And these same conversations that we're having today, we've had 10 years ago, 20 years ago, which is that we will make segregated schools equal to white schools. The people he'd be bringing into court would have to do double duty. Right?Right.

I think that integration is the best solution for this problem, it’s hard because the opposing school would fight to not let another school join them, like what we heard in the podcasts. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African American girl, on her way to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, on November 14, 1960, during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. And that's weird. Very exciting.

It could have been money for magnet schools.You can't sneak things in. And I've been in this school for five years.

"The kids were visiting from private school just up the road, part of an exchange program between the two schools that one of our producers, Chana Joffe-Walt, did some reporting on that ran here on our program a few months ago.

And I had never heard of a magnet school before.

And another mom told me, "I think it just gives them a deeper understanding of the world around them, which is what you hope happens in school. Which one, you ask?I chose Classical Magnet, where I get to learn Latin, the liberal arts, and get ready for a top college. Kimberly Henderson is her office coordinator.Music help from Damian Graf, from Rob Geddis.

It became a bandwagon. It was money from the Stimulus during the recession.

And they don't allow in so many.The last superintendent of Hartford public schools wanted to drop the whole integration thing altogether, just focus on Hartford students.

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They said their classrooms were overwhelmed by poverty.One principal described how when it rained his cafeteria would flood.

Is it safe?"

And a big part of that was just because she wanted something different. That is like a damned spot in their being and their self-image. I remember some of us feeling scared.

Who are they reaching?

And actually, John Brittain, who had been meeting with the administration during the transition, expected it to.

Not so much the case for our Hartford resident families. She goes to a Hartford magnet school. She's from one of the other very few places that runs a regional school integration program, Louisville, Kentucky, Jefferson County.

And so one of our recruitment billboards said "Both you and your child should be working here in Hartford." The advice I give to seniors is "OK, everybody's going to want to be around their same kind of people, but if you're always in the same environment, always doing the same things with the same people, you become naive or you don't really know about the world. That's why I want to go. She brought it up very politely.I bring from Jefferson County, Kentucky an invitation.Her invitation was basically saying, "Hey, bigwigs, Obama administration, Washington, we need you. The Welcome family made it to the magnet school in the scary part of Hartford, which did not seem so scary to them. 562 and No.563 alexisagrelablogs Uncategorized March 25, 2018 2 Minutes These podcasts back-to-back were so interesting to listen to.

And she is so quick. When they don't realize we get a lot more applications than we do seats, parents call every day to see if their numbers have moved, and if they're still going to have that chance.So you're dealing with a lot of frustrated parents sometimes.Hartford parents right now are frustrated for the exact same reason parents were frustrated with Hartford schools in the 1980s when John Brittain sued-- their schools are inferior. Throughout a part of the podcast Nikole Hannah Jones and Ira Glass discuss  desegregation in schools. And we got the White House on line 1.

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And we told them, "Oh, whenever you guys have one of your fests, let us know."

A school that is 25% reduced isolation kids officially counts as an integrated school. They could afford to pay, but if you get a magnet seat, you're going to get free preschool.

If that is what's making it so hard to meet the quota recently, that could blow up the plan.Enid's office is on the third floor of a state building.

They just act like next level crazy, like in a big mob, just do what you want.

She still lives here.So this is a bizarre job for her, assuring white suburban families, "Don't worry. 10 miles outside the city are suburbs like Glastonbury and Avon that are 90% white. Navaet ?]

He's so excited by how different everyone is."

It took another seven years, until 2003, for the state to settle with the plaintiffs, 14 years after he first filed the suit.